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At least two so-called "landing teams" in Cabinet agencies have relayed the call for cuts as part of their marching orders to shrink the flab in government.
The cuts would target discretionary spending, not mandated programs such as Medicare or Social Security, the sources said.
The spending reductions are expected to be used to help pay for Trump's plan to boost the Pentagon's budget, tax cuts and some pet projects, potentially including the anti-immigration wall on the nation's southern border.
The teams also are looking at staffing cuts over four years through attrition, a hiring freeze and reorganization.
The plan is winning cheers in conservative, anti-tax and anti-spending corners in Washington that have long sought massive cuts in the bureaucracy.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/boom-trump-eyes-10-spending-cuts-20-slash-of-federal-workers/article/2612037
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)to UPS and Fed Ex.
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)It is a constitutional requirement to have a federal postal service so they cannot do away with the USPS. That is why under G W Bush they made it so that the USPS had to fully fund the pension fund for 70 years in advance -- the GOP was trying to bankrupt the USPS.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)programs wouldn't have to be cut if you and your loathesome ilk would pay your fair share for a change.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)We don't need a dozen aircraft carriers, each bigger than any other nation's.
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Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)We should reduce all the corporate tax breaks.
maxrandb
(15,348 posts)recommending Defense spending increases of about 25% over the next 4 years.
He's recommending increase from $650B this Fiscal Year to over $817B in 2022.
How we will pay for all that, plus a massive corporate and top 1% tax-cut will require Tiffany Mirrors and Royal Smoke.
We are fucked.
They'll break the budget again (remember, deficits only matter when Dems are in charge) and leave us no choice but to make drastic cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Veterans Health Care, Veterans Pensions and the entire social safety net
a kennedy
(29,699 posts)unblock
(52,306 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,150 posts)I'm not sure that the sarcasm tag was appropriate in this case. I think they actually might be thinking that, because remember there are classical (read Austrian) economics folks who believe that unemployment too low is a bad thing. (Of course, wholly disproven from 1994 to 2001)
I have no doubt that those kinds of economics "experts" are part of this crew's staff.
unblock
(52,306 posts)but yes, no doubt, many russopublicans want all manner of ills to fall on democrats, liberals, blacks, women, latinos, government workers, the poor, etc.
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts).... writhing on the floor screaming and they call 911, that no one answers because the budget cuts took them away.
Johonny
(20,879 posts)Gutting agencies will have consequences down the line. They all do important things. When these things aren't done you might not notice right away, but eventually you'll notice.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Lots of do-nothing civilian jobs over there. The military needs some fat trimmed.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,355 posts)who had worked on certain issues, like climate change? Guess who they'll find "surplus to requirements" ...